Industry News - High-Def

Home Media Magazine offers expanded coverage of the high-definition Blu-ray Disc format, the next generation in packaged media.

Fox Debuts New Interactive Technology With ‘Night at the Museum 2’

November 06, 2009

Dubbed “FoxPop,” the feature debuts on the Dec. 1 release of Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian and allows viewers to sync up their iPhone or computer with the film.

ITV Gives Beyond Home Entertainment Blu-ray Content for Australia, New Zealand

November 05, 2009

ITV Studios Home Entertainment, which claims the biggest English-language film library in the United Kingdom, has licensed its films to Beyond Home Entertainment to release them on Blu-ray Disc in Australia and New Zealand.

Scorsese: Blu-ray Is Incredible

November 03, 2009

Celebrated filmmaker Martin Scorsese has emerged as one of Blu-ray Disc’s biggest cheerleaders, praising the high-definition format for faithfully recreating the theatrical experience better than any of its predecessors, including DVD.

Studios Say Economy Accounts for Majority of Industry Trouble

November 03, 2009

The home entertainment industry’s current malaise is 80% due to the economy, and the business should be back in growth mode by 2012. So say the home entertainment presidents of four of the six majors, speaking Nov. 3 at a Blu-Con 2.0 panel discussion moderated by Merrill Lynch senior analyst Jessica Reif Cohen.